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Wenyi Wei

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
29349
World Ranking
2030
National Ranking
1107

Wenyi Wei publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wenyi Wei sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 377 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Wenyi Wei D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wenyi Wei sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wenyi Wei is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research output includes 250 publications related to biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and 119 focused on medicine.

The scientist's work spans diverse subfields such as molecular biology, oncology, immunology, cancer research, and epidemiology. The detailed breakdown of publications highlights 203 in molecular biology, 41 in oncology, 25 in immunology, 23 in cancer research, and 16 in epidemiology.

Key research topics addressed by Wenyi Wei include:

  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Protein degradation and inhibitors
  • Histone deacetylase inhibitors research
  • Cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Autophagy in disease and therapy
  • Peptidase inhibition and analysis

Their recent peer-reviewed publications include:

  • The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery, 2020, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
  • Acetylation-dependent regulation of PD-L1 nuclear translocation dictates the efficacy of anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Ubiquitin signaling in cell cycle control and tumorigenesis, 2020, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Cell cycle on the crossroad of tumorigenesis and cancer therapy, 2021, Trends in Cell Biology
  • Upregulation of METTL14 mediates the elevation of PERP mRNA N6 adenosine methylation promoting the growth and metastasis of pancreatic cancer, 2020, Molecular Cancer

Frequent collaborators in Wenyi Wei's work include Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Jing Liu, Jinfang Zhang, Xiaoming Dai, and Jianping Guo, with collaboration counts ranging from 18 to 51 joint works.

Publication venues where Wenyi Wei has published multiple works include Seminars in Cancer Biology and Nature Communications with 11 papers each, Journal of the American Chemical Society with 10, Molecular Cell with 8, and Acta Materia Medica with 7 publications.

In addition to journal articles, Wenyi Wei has authored books with Springer Nature, including "Cullin-RING Ligases and Protein Neddylation" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Bypass of Senescence After Disruption of p21CIP1/WAF1 Gene in Normal Diploid Human Fibroblasts

    Jeremy P. Brown;Wenyi Wei;John M. Sedivy

  • Cyclin D–CDK4 kinase destabilizes PD-L1 via cullin 3–SPOP to control cancer immune surveillance

    Jinfang Zhang;Xia Bu;Haizhen Wang;Yasheng Zhu

  • Dissociation among in vitro telomerase activity, telomere maintenance, and cellular immortalization

    Christopher M. Counter;William C. Hahn;Wenyi Wei;Stephanie Dickinson Caddle

  • SCF FBW7 regulates cellular apoptosis by targeting MCL1 for ubiquitylation and destruction

    Hiroyuki Inuzuka;Shavali Shaik;Ichiro Onoyama;Darning Gao

  • Neuronal apoptosis linked to EglN3 prolyl hydroxylase and familial pheochromocytoma genes: developmental culling and cancer.

    Sungwoo Lee;Eijiro Nakamura;Haifeng Yang;Wenyi Wei

  • Degradation of the SCF component Skp2 in cell-cycle phase G1 by the anaphase-promoting complex

    Wenyi Wei;Nagi G. Ayad;Yong Wan;Guo Jun Zhang

  • Roles of F-box proteins in cancer

    Zhiwei Wang;Pengda Liu;Hiroyuki Inuzuka;Wenyi Wei

  • The v-Jun point mutation allows c-Jun to escape GSK3-dependent recognition and destruction by the Fbw7 ubiquitin ligase.

    Wenyi Wei;Jianping Jin;Susanne Schlisio;Susanne Schlisio;J. Wade Harper

  • The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

    Lu Deng;Tong Meng;Lei Chen;Wenyi Wei

  • The Skp2-SCF E3 ligase regulates akt ubiquitination, glycolysis, herceptin sensitivity, and tumorigenesis

    Chia Hsin Chan;Chien Feng Li;Chien Feng Li;Wei Lei Yang;Wei Lei Yang;Yuan Gao;Yuan Gao

  • Cell-cycle-regulated activation of Akt kinase by phosphorylation at its carboxyl terminus

    Pengda Liu;Michael Begley;Wojciech Michowski;Hiroyuki Inuzuka

  • PtdIns(3,4,5)P3-Dependent Activation of the mTORC2 Kinase Complex

    Pengda Liu;Wenjian Gan;Y. Rebecca Chin;Kohei Ogura

  • Role of p21 in Apoptosis and Senescence of Human Colon Cancer Cells Treated with Camptothecin

    Zhiyong Han;Wenyi Wei;Stephen Dunaway;Stephen Dunaway;James W. Darnowski

  • Cancer-associated PTEN mutants act in a dominant-negative manner to suppress PTEN protein function.

    Antonella Papa;Lixin Wan;Massimo Bonora;Leonardo Salmena

  • Phosphorylation by Akt1 promotes cytoplasmic localization of Skp2 and impairs APCCdh1-mediated Skp2 destruction

    Daming Gao;Hiroyuki Inuzuka;Alan Tseng;Rebecca Y. Chin

  • Sin1 phosphorylation impairs mTORC2 complex integrity and inhibits downstream Akt signalling to suppress tumorigenesis

    Pengda Liu;Wenjian Gan;Hiroyuki Inuzuka;Adam S. Lazorchak

  • Role of p14(ARF) in replicative and induced senescence of human fibroblasts.

    Wenyi Wei;Ruth M. Hemmer;John M. Sedivy

  • Prostate cancer-associated SPOP mutations confer resistance to BET inhibitors through stabilization of BRD4.

    Xiangpeng Dai;Wenjian Gan;Xiaoning Li;Xiaoning Li;Shangqian Wang

  • mTOR drives its own activation via SCF(βTrCP)-dependent degradation of the mTOR inhibitor DEPTOR.

    Daming Gao;Hiroyuki Inuzuka;Meng Kwang Marcus Tan;Hidefumi Fukushima

  • Phosphorylation of the cell cycle inhibitor p21Cip1/WAF1 by Pim-1 kinase

    Zeping Wang;Nandini Bhattacharya;Philip F Mixter;Wenyi Wei

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Inuzuka
Hiroyuki Inuzuka Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Pier Paolo Pandolfi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
William G. Kaelin
William G. Kaelin Harvard University
John M. Asara
John M. Asara Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Yi Sun
Yi Sun Zhejiang University
Alex Toker
Alex Toker Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John M. Sedivy
John M. Sedivy Brown University
Steven P. Gygi
Steven P. Gygi Harvard University
Piotr Sicinski
Piotr Sicinski Harvard University
J. Wade Harper
J. Wade Harper Harvard Medical School

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